Half-dozen sites will receive massive state funding to assist returning formerly abandoned, contaminated or otherwise unproductive property to commercial and residential uses.
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ACWR's green railcar innovation is saving $250,000 per year in diesel fuel costs and cutting pollution by 40 percent. …
Small Projects Make Big Difference in Communities Across America. …
Awards will create green jobs and reduce energy costs. …
Expansion initiative could have impact on brownfields redevelopments abroad. …
Two key projects will see the lion’s share of funding
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Thirteen states can make easier transition without ‘multi-billion dollar gambles.’
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Through the financial assistance of the U.S. EPA and the dramatically improved methods of evaluating environmental risk, state like Ohio, Pa. and West. Va. are seeing an uptick in brownfield assessment, and with it job creation. …
Federal Brownfield Re-authorization legislation is the top priority. …
Six project in the Commonwealth have been identified for urban redevelopment. …
Do you care about the state of brownfields in other countries, from Western Europe to Russia to South and Latin America to the Pacific Rim? Or more specifically, do you care about reading about it in your Brownfield journal for the record (that would be this one)?
It’s an interesting question because on the one hand, if there’s any viable takeaways or real application for stakeholders in North …
Each decision made during the cleanup of contaminated properties has an impact on our natural environment and our future well-being. Environmental professionals make choices throughout the lifecycle of investigation/cleanup projects that affect more than just the removal of contaminants from the ground.
These decisions also affect air emissions, water resources, land and ecosystems, energy requirements, materials consumption and long-term sustainability. Considering the environmental …
When searching for a renewable asset site, solar and wind farm developers
generally focus on land control and land availability—features that active and inactive mines have in abundance. You just have to know
where to look. Your best bet likely is going to be land assets associated with
the mining properties that have little or no intrinsic value, such as tailings
impoundments and waste rock heaps. …
On a scorching hot day in June 2009, a team from Duke-Hemisphere Redevelopment
visited a hulking 1.5-million square foot Delphi Automotive plant near
Columbus, Ohio. Walking through the plant was like a journey back in time. The dimly lit
manufacturing facility had a noticeably sweet and sticky odor from nearly 67
years of intensive manufacturing activity conducted on the heavily-worn wood
block flooring. Like …
Brownfields have been defined as “property that has remained idle, abandoned or underutilized because of contamination or the threat of contamination.” That definition certainly applies to the Atlantic Terrance property prior to its redevelopment. Located in urban downtown Brooklyn, N.Y., this one-third acre property was a
gasoline filling station from 1939 to 1969 with multiple petroleum Underground Storage Tanks (USTs). The project, formally known as …
The first time you visit Palouse, Wash. you start making plans to move there. The
Palouse region of southeast Washington State is one of the most photogenic
landscapes in the country with endless rolling hills of wheat, and prairie
grass dotted with farms.
Nestled in river valley is the city of Palouse (pop. 1,025). Located twenty minutes …
PROPERTY SIZE/END USE: Warrensville Heights, Ohio is an economically challenged, post-industrial,
inner-ring suburb of Cleveland. At the heart of this community is a 17-acre
Brownfield site that the city plans to redevelop with a cluster of community-oriented programs: …
PROPERTY SIZE/END USE: The 20-acre redevelopment includes a 5-plus acre former Kidde Brass & Aluminum foundry located less than three blocks from the Ranson City offices on
the Commerce Corridor. The mixed-use urban infill development is designed to
meet LEED-ND certification for neighborhood development, and will be the first
of its kind in West Virginia. This development as designed currently will
include approximately 5.2-acres of parks, recreation …
